A List To Acomplish

We all spend so much time doing the things that are expected of us that we seldom have the time to do the things that we want to do and that we know are just a waste of our time. These things are not extensive or not very important to anyone else. They are just the things that we want to do to amuse ourselves. Some of the time we just want to do nothing and the world around us will not let us take the time to just do nothing. If it was not for computers we would need to spend much of our lives doing what now takes just a very short period of time. The time that we have saved should be used to make our lives happier and not just better.
In the past we spent so much time just doing the basic things that we did not have any time to do anything else. Now that we have the extra time we should use at least some of it for the things that we did not do in the past. Here are some suggestions for the things that we could do.
1. Learn how to fly fish. Any time that you can stand in water and pretend that you are actually doing something that has some realistic results it is good. Be sure that you use the catch and release method so that you will not have to clean those messy fish.
2. Go sky diving. If you want to go up in an aircraft and jump out at an outrageous height so that you can get wind burn on your face and look weird. Just don’t do what a friend did and end up a ¼” shorter after the jump then you were before you left the ground.
3. Try driving a race car. This is one way to learn who your real friends are and who will visit you when you are in complete body traction. It would be better to use one of the simulators to try to learn, but those expensive driving schools do let you wear the fancy uniforms and the helmets.
4. Start a chess tournament. People always enjoy seeing a bunch of people sitting around and then banging on time clocks for days at a time. It is even more fun when you have them all trying to beat one computer that has no idea that it is the butt of a joke.
5. Learn to speak Klingon. You might try to learn this languages that is never used by anyone and that way you are wasting your time and besides no one will know that you are not really saying anything anyway.
6. Meditate. Sit quietly by yourself and do nothing for long periods of time. You can just say that you are learning one of the oriental arts. That way some people will actually think that you are accomplishing something when you are just staring out into space.
7. Write top ten lists for Letterman. Write those inane lists that normally have no purpose and do not seem to get many laughs. Sometimes the fact that a celebrity makes fun of themselves, does add to the humor but rarely do they achieve any purpose so they do fit into this usage.
8. Learn how to knit. Knitting can produce a legitimate product but in most cases a scarf that is ten feet long will not do much good and besides who wants a scarf that is red and white except the one day a year at your school’s homecoming game.
9. Be the designated driver for Lindsey Lohan This is a useless job since she is either going to court or serving time in rehab. If she ever does get straightened out, then maybe you could drive her to work and sit around doing nothing for the short periods of time that she will be working or more likely shopping. Than again you might want to keep the engine running if she decides to exit a store quickly.
10. Write lists of things that people can do in their spare time. If you have nothing to do and that is what you want to do then if you are seen writing long lists the people around you are less likely to think that you are doing nothing and that you are enjoying what you are doing.
The fact that you are actually enjoying what you are doing may not be of any practical purpose and that will make you feel good, but will annoy everyone around you.